Philip Van Peer
Biographic Data
| ID | 633085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Van Peer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Peer |
| SIGNATURE | VAN PEER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7745-9528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
From Stasis To Cyclic Variation: The Chronological Arrangement of the Mousterian in southwest France and Modes of Culture Change in the Late Middle Palaeolithic of western Europe
Deep Mechanical Coring Delivers New Pleistocene Archaeological Sites up to Eight Metres Below Surface in the Flemish Valley (Belgium)
Our study reveals multiple signals of Palaeolithic occupation in the Flemish Valley, a large depression in coastal northwestern Europe with an extremely sparse Pleistocene archaeological record until now. We show that mechanical coring can reveal archaeological evidence of hominin presence from deep palaeolandscapes that are inaccessible for standard survey techniques. At nine out of 41 coring sites, we encountered a total number of 56 lithic art…
Sai Island (Site 8-B-11), Sudan
A Mechanical Framework of Conchoidal Flaking and Its Place in Lithic Systematics
At the lakeshore – An Early Nubian Complex site linked with lacustrine sediments (Eastern Desert, Egypt)
A reconstruction of the stratigraphic position of a former Middle Palaeolithic surface site at Rotselaar – Toren ter Heide (Flemish Valley, Belgium) using mechanical sounding and geochemical fingerpri…
The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic Transition in Northwestern Europe: Evidence from Kesselt-Op de Schans
Technological Systems, Population Dynamics, and Historical Process in the MSA of Northern Africa
The emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in north-western Europe and its southern fringes
Multi-emission luminescence dating of heated chert from the Middle Stone Age sequence at Sodmein Cave (Red Sea Mountains, Egypt)
Nubian Complex reduction strategies in Dhofar, southern Oman
Between 2010 and 2012, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has located and mapped 260 Nubian Complex occurrences across Dhofar, southern Oman. Many of these lithic assemblages are technologically homologous to the Late Nubian Industry found in Africa, while others may represent a local industry derived from classic Nubian Levallois technology. The purpose of this paper is to describe the various reduction strategies encountered at a sample of Nubia…
Aspects of tool production, use, and hafting in Palaeolithic assemblages from Northeast Africa
The Chaîne Opératoire Approach in Middle Paleolithic Archaeology
Since the pioneering days of Paleolithic archaeology in western Europe, the making of stone tools has received special attention. Numerous studies were aimed at creating systematic typologies of artifacts based on descriptions of their technical features and morphological attributes. Recently, the concept of chaîne opératoire, or "operational sequence" (sometimes called "core reduction sequence"), borrowed from French social anthropologists, has …
L’occupation paléolithique de l’île de Sai: Résultats de trois campagnes de prospection 1996-1998
Cet article présente un compte-rendu du Paléolithique de l’île de Saï d’après les résultats préliminaires de trois campagnes de prospection de surface. De nombreuses occurrences de matériel lithique préhistorique, souvent en concentrations considérables et bien délimitées, ont été retrouvées lors des prospections. Certains de ces sites sont actuellement en cours de fouille et le présent article ne prend pas en compte les résultats de ces études a…
A Survey of the Bili Cave and Its Surroundings in the Red Sea Mountains, El Gouna, Egypt
A survey in the El Gouna area, Red Sea, Egypt, disclosed the presence of Acheulean, early Middle Palaeolithic, late Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Holocene sites. One of the Middle Holocene sites is a “Steinplatz”” with Predynastic lithic material
Continental Patterns in Stone Tools: A Technological and Biplot-Based Comparison of Early Late Pleistocene Assemblages from Northern and Southern Africa
The Middle Holocene Shell Mound of El Gouna on the Red Sea (Egypt)
In the El Gouna (Hurghada) area on the Red Sea of Egypt, a Middle Holocene shell mound from around 5800 b.p. (uncalibrated radiocarbon years before A.D. 1950) has been tested by a restricted excavation. Collection of shellfish on the Red Sea shore provided subsistence opportunities for Middle Holocene groups coeval with the Early Predynastic Tasian of the Nile Valley. The El Gouna site demonstrates for the first time that shell mounds exist near …
Early evidence of complexity in lithic economy: Core-axe production, hafting and use at Late Middle Pleistocene site 8-B-11, Sai Island (Sudan)
A story of colourful diggers and grinders: The Sangoan and Lupemban at site 8-B-11, Sai Island, Northern Sudan
The site of Sai 8-B-11 in northern Sudan contains a succession of occupation levels comprised within a sedimentological sequence that spans the end of the Middle and the early Upper Pleistocene. Located on the southeastern pediment of a Nubian Sandstone inselberg, the site reveals itself at the present surface by a large concentration of artefacts eroding out of Nilotic silt deposits. Our excavations have shown that this Upper Pleistocene floodpl…
The Early to Middle Stone Age Transition and the Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour at site 8-B-11, Sai Island, Sudan
Using Monte Carlo Simulation for the Environmental Analysis of Small Archaeologic Datasets, with the Mesolithic in Northeast Belgium as a Case Study
Thermoluminescence Dating of a Middle Palaeolithic Occupation at Sodmein Cave, Red Sea Mountains (Egypt)
Une donnée peu connue sur la sépulture du premier adulte de La Ferrassie (Savignac-de-Miremont, Dordogne)/A little known element concerning the burial of the first adult at La Ferrassie (Savignac-de-M…
Si les sépultures sont attestées sur la totalité de l'aire de répartition des Néandertaliens, leurs modalités peuvent être variables. Souvent, on a supposé que le défunt était déposé dans une fosse de faible profondeur ou dans une dépression naturelle du sol. Un des cas où ce dernier type "d'inhumation" est accepté est celui du sujet La Ferrassie 1. Néanmoins, les remarques formulées dans une lettre inédite de D. Peyrony à M. Boule nous apprennen…
A Middle Palaeolithic burial of a modern human at Taramsa Hill, Egypt
Discussion about a possible African origin of modern humans is hampered by the lack of Late Pleistocene skeletal material from the Nile valley, the likely passage-way from East Africa to Asia and Europe. Here we report the discovery of a burial of an anatomically modern child from southern Egypt. Its clear relation with Middle Palaeolithic chert extraction activities and a series of OSL dates, from correlative aeolian sands, suggests an age betwe…
The Nile Corridor and the Out-of-Africa Model An Examination of the Archaeological Record
This paper addresses the question of whether archaeological data-especially data from the Middle Palaeolithic-are relevant to current discussion on the origin and dispersal of modern humans. The structure of the Middle Paleolithic record of the Lower Nile Valley and adjacent deserts, a key region in the Out-of-Africa model, is examined. On the basis of the present database two archaeological complexes can be established: the Nubian complex and th…
The Early to Middle Stone Age Transition and the Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour at site 8-B-11, Sai Island, Sudan
A story of colourful diggers and grinders: The Sangoan and Lupemban at site 8-B-11, Sai Island, Northern Sudan
The site of Sai 8-B-11 in northern Sudan contains a succession of occupation levels comprised within a sedimentological sequence that spans the end of the Middle and the early Upper Pleistocene. Located on the southeastern pediment of a Nubian Sandstone inselberg, the site reveals itself at the present surface by a large concentration of artefacts eroding out of Nilotic silt deposits. Our excavations have shown that this Upper Pleistocene floodpl…
The Chaîne Opératoire Approach in Middle Paleolithic Archaeology
Since the pioneering days of Paleolithic archaeology in western Europe, the making of stone tools has received special attention. Numerous studies were aimed at creating systematic typologies of artifacts based on descriptions of their technical features and morphological attributes. Recently, the concept of chaîne opératoire, or "operational sequence" (sometimes called "core reduction sequence"), borrowed from French social anthropologists, has …
The Nile Corridor and the Out-of-Africa Model An Examination of the Archaeological Record
This paper addresses the question of whether archaeological data-especially data from the Middle Palaeolithic-are relevant to current discussion on the origin and dispersal of modern humans. The structure of the Middle Paleolithic record of the Lower Nile Valley and adjacent deserts, a key region in the Out-of-Africa model, is examined. On the basis of the present database two archaeological complexes can be established: the Nubian complex and th…
Aspects of tool production, use, and hafting in Palaeolithic assemblages from Northeast Africa
Early evidence of complexity in lithic economy: Core-axe production, hafting and use at Late Middle Pleistocene site 8-B-11, Sai Island (Sudan)
Nubian Complex reduction strategies in Dhofar, southern Oman
Between 2010 and 2012, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has located and mapped 260 Nubian Complex occurrences across Dhofar, southern Oman. Many of these lithic assemblages are technologically homologous to the Late Nubian Industry found in Africa, while others may represent a local industry derived from classic Nubian Levallois technology. The purpose of this paper is to describe the various reduction strategies encountered at a sample of Nubia…
A Middle Palaeolithic burial of a modern human at Taramsa Hill, Egypt
Discussion about a possible African origin of modern humans is hampered by the lack of Late Pleistocene skeletal material from the Nile valley, the likely passage-way from East Africa to Asia and Europe. Here we report the discovery of a burial of an anatomically modern child from southern Egypt. Its clear relation with Middle Palaeolithic chert extraction activities and a series of OSL dates, from correlative aeolian sands, suggests an age betwe…
The emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in north-western Europe and its southern fringes
Interassemblage variability and levallois styles: The case of the northern african middle palaeolithic
Multi-emission luminescence dating of heated chert from the Middle Stone Age sequence at Sodmein Cave (Red Sea Mountains, Egypt)
Palaeolithic chert exploitation in the limestone stretch of the Egyptian Nile Valley
Thermoluminescence Dating of a Middle Palaeolithic Occupation at Sodmein Cave, Red Sea Mountains (Egypt)
The Language Hypothesis for the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition: An Examination Based on a Multiregional Lithic Analysis [and Comments and Reply]
New Observations about the Nile Valley Middle Palaeolithic: Safaha Method and Lateralization of Levallois Flakes
Two new observations about Nile Valley Middle Palaeolithic technology and typology are presented in this paper. One is related to the Levallois reduction sequence and another to the secondary modification of Levallois flakes. Furthermore, the bearing of both observations on such issues as the evidence for handedness and interassemblage variability in the Nile Valley Middle Palaeolithic is examined
Un site Magdalénien à Kanne (Limbourg)
Une donnée peu connue sur la sépulture du premier adulte de La Ferrassie (Savignac-de-Miremont, Dordogne)/A little known element concerning the burial of the first adult at La Ferrassie (Savignac-de-M…
Si les sépultures sont attestées sur la totalité de l'aire de répartition des Néandertaliens, leurs modalités peuvent être variables. Souvent, on a supposé que le défunt était déposé dans une fosse de faible profondeur ou dans une dépression naturelle du sol. Un des cas où ce dernier type "d'inhumation" est accepté est celui du sujet La Ferrassie 1. Néanmoins, les remarques formulées dans une lettre inédite de D. Peyrony à M. Boule nous apprennen…
Using Monte Carlo Simulation for the Environmental Analysis of Small Archaeologic Datasets, with the Mesolithic in Northeast Belgium as a Case Study
A Mechanical Framework of Conchoidal Flaking and Its Place in Lithic Systematics
The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic Transition in Northwestern Europe: Evidence from Kesselt-Op de Schans
A Survey of the Bili Cave and Its Surroundings in the Red Sea Mountains, El Gouna, Egypt
A survey in the El Gouna area, Red Sea, Egypt, disclosed the presence of Acheulean, early Middle Palaeolithic, late Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Holocene sites. One of the Middle Holocene sites is a “Steinplatz”” with Predynastic lithic material
Continental Patterns in Stone Tools: A Technological and Biplot-Based Comparison of Early Late Pleistocene Assemblages from Northern and Southern Africa
The Middle Holocene Shell Mound of El Gouna on the Red Sea (Egypt)
In the El Gouna (Hurghada) area on the Red Sea of Egypt, a Middle Holocene shell mound from around 5800 b.p. (uncalibrated radiocarbon years before A.D. 1950) has been tested by a restricted excavation. Collection of shellfish on the Red Sea shore provided subsistence opportunities for Middle Holocene groups coeval with the Early Predynastic Tasian of the Nile Valley. The El Gouna site demonstrates for the first time that shell mounds exist near …
Un site Magdalénien à Kanne (Limbourg)
La variabilité du débitage levallois dans la vallée du Nil égyptien
L'étude technologique de quelques industries du Paléolithique moyen de l'Egypte révèle que la méthode Levallois y a été appliquée selon des modes qui diffèrent. Cette constatation est en accord avec ce que relèvent des études récentes concernant d'autres régions, qui témoignent de la diversité du phénomène Levallois. Afin de déterminer cette variabilité et d'en arriver à une meilleure compréhension de la méthode Levallois, une méthodologie approp…
Palaeolithic chert exploitation in the limestone stretch of the Egyptian Nile Valley
Interassemblage variability and levallois styles: The case of the northern african middle palaeolithic
New Observations about the Nile Valley Middle Palaeolithic: Safaha Method and Lateralization of Levallois Flakes
Two new observations about Nile Valley Middle Palaeolithic technology and typology are presented in this paper. One is related to the Levallois reduction sequence and another to the secondary modification of Levallois flakes. Furthermore, the bearing of both observations on such issues as the evidence for handedness and interassemblage variability in the Nile Valley Middle Palaeolithic is examined
The Language Hypothesis for the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition: An Examination Based on a Multiregional Lithic Analysis [and Comments and Reply]
Une donnée peu connue sur la sépulture du premier adulte de La Ferrassie (Savignac-de-Miremont, Dordogne)/A little known element concerning the burial of the first adult at La Ferrassie (Savignac-de-M…
Si les sépultures sont attestées sur la totalité de l'aire de répartition des Néandertaliens, leurs modalités peuvent être variables. Souvent, on a supposé que le défunt était déposé dans une fosse de faible profondeur ou dans une dépression naturelle du sol. Un des cas où ce dernier type "d'inhumation" est accepté est celui du sujet La Ferrassie 1. Néanmoins, les remarques formulées dans une lettre inédite de D. Peyrony à M. Boule nous apprennen…
A Middle Palaeolithic burial of a modern human at Taramsa Hill, Egypt
Discussion about a possible African origin of modern humans is hampered by the lack of Late Pleistocene skeletal material from the Nile valley, the likely passage-way from East Africa to Asia and Europe. Here we report the discovery of a burial of an anatomically modern child from southern Egypt. Its clear relation with Middle Palaeolithic chert extraction activities and a series of OSL dates, from correlative aeolian sands, suggests an age betwe…
The Nile Corridor and the Out-of-Africa Model An Examination of the Archaeological Record
This paper addresses the question of whether archaeological data-especially data from the Middle Palaeolithic-are relevant to current discussion on the origin and dispersal of modern humans. The structure of the Middle Paleolithic record of the Lower Nile Valley and adjacent deserts, a key region in the Out-of-Africa model, is examined. On the basis of the present database two archaeological complexes can be established: the Nubian complex and th…
Thermoluminescence Dating of a Middle Palaeolithic Occupation at Sodmein Cave, Red Sea Mountains (Egypt)
Using Monte Carlo Simulation for the Environmental Analysis of Small Archaeologic Datasets, with the Mesolithic in Northeast Belgium as a Case Study
The Early to Middle Stone Age Transition and the Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour at site 8-B-11, Sai Island, Sudan
A story of colourful diggers and grinders: The Sangoan and Lupemban at site 8-B-11, Sai Island, Northern Sudan
The site of Sai 8-B-11 in northern Sudan contains a succession of occupation levels comprised within a sedimentological sequence that spans the end of the Middle and the early Upper Pleistocene. Located on the southeastern pediment of a Nubian Sandstone inselberg, the site reveals itself at the present surface by a large concentration of artefacts eroding out of Nilotic silt deposits. Our excavations have shown that this Upper Pleistocene floodpl…
A Survey of the Bili Cave and Its Surroundings in the Red Sea Mountains, El Gouna, Egypt
A survey in the El Gouna area, Red Sea, Egypt, disclosed the presence of Acheulean, early Middle Palaeolithic, late Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Holocene sites. One of the Middle Holocene sites is a “Steinplatz”” with Predynastic lithic material
Continental Patterns in Stone Tools: A Technological and Biplot-Based Comparison of Early Late Pleistocene Assemblages from Northern and Southern Africa
The Middle Holocene Shell Mound of El Gouna on the Red Sea (Egypt)
In the El Gouna (Hurghada) area on the Red Sea of Egypt, a Middle Holocene shell mound from around 5800 b.p. (uncalibrated radiocarbon years before A.D. 1950) has been tested by a restricted excavation. Collection of shellfish on the Red Sea shore provided subsistence opportunities for Middle Holocene groups coeval with the Early Predynastic Tasian of the Nile Valley. The El Gouna site demonstrates for the first time that shell mounds exist near …
Early evidence of complexity in lithic economy: Core-axe production, hafting and use at Late Middle Pleistocene site 8-B-11, Sai Island (Sudan)
L’occupation paléolithique de l’île de Sai: Résultats de trois campagnes de prospection 1996-1998
Cet article présente un compte-rendu du Paléolithique de l’île de Saï d’après les résultats préliminaires de trois campagnes de prospection de surface. De nombreuses occurrences de matériel lithique préhistorique, souvent en concentrations considérables et bien délimitées, ont été retrouvées lors des prospections. Certains de ces sites sont actuellement en cours de fouille et le présent article ne prend pas en compte les résultats de ces études a…
The Chaîne Opératoire Approach in Middle Paleolithic Archaeology
Since the pioneering days of Paleolithic archaeology in western Europe, the making of stone tools has received special attention. Numerous studies were aimed at creating systematic typologies of artifacts based on descriptions of their technical features and morphological attributes. Recently, the concept of chaîne opératoire, or "operational sequence" (sometimes called "core reduction sequence"), borrowed from French social anthropologists, has …
Aspects of tool production, use, and hafting in Palaeolithic assemblages from Northeast Africa
Nubian Complex reduction strategies in Dhofar, southern Oman
Between 2010 and 2012, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has located and mapped 260 Nubian Complex occurrences across Dhofar, southern Oman. Many of these lithic assemblages are technologically homologous to the Late Nubian Industry found in Africa, while others may represent a local industry derived from classic Nubian Levallois technology. The purpose of this paper is to describe the various reduction strategies encountered at a sample of Nubia…
Multi-emission luminescence dating of heated chert from the Middle Stone Age sequence at Sodmein Cave (Red Sea Mountains, Egypt)
Technological Systems, Population Dynamics, and Historical Process in the MSA of Northern Africa
The emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in north-western Europe and its southern fringes
A reconstruction of the stratigraphic position of a former Middle Palaeolithic surface site at Rotselaar – Toren ter Heide (Flemish Valley, Belgium) using mechanical sounding and geochemical fingerpri…
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (28 works) · Archaeology (25 works) · Geography (23 works) · Geology (19 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 works) · Pleistocene (13 works) · History (11 works) · History (10 works) · Paleontology (10 works) · Assemblage (archaeology (9 works)